Experience of using Fedora in schools

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 04:51 +0000, Nicholas Robinson wrote:
> I have had a few 'complaints' today though from the kids. They want to
> know why we didn't put this 'new system' on before!

You might want to expand on that, it does sound like a good PR
statement.  If the actual comments are sensible, you might as well say
what they were (beyond the little bit you said further on).

> Unpicking their more detailed comments on KDE vs. gnome, it seems that
> the perception is that firefox is slower on kde. I have noticed that
> it is much slower when using an nfs drive for its configuration/cache
> folders but not specifically kde or gnome. 

Have you considered not using a cache per browser (turn off the on-disk
caching in each browser), but using a common proxy for your whole LAN?
You'll reduce your internet bandwidth usage, and it's possible that it
might be more efficient than what you've noticed with NFSing the local
caches.

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